ensembles
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Although the folk performers probably improvised their songs as in Turkish taksim performances, the present institutional canon is performed as fixed compositions by ensembles.
Arrangements of popular music for small a cappella ensembles typically include one voice singing the lead melody, one singing a rhythmic bass line, and the remaining voices contributing chordal or polyphonic accompaniment.
At the Bavarian court of Oettingen-Wallerstein, his music was often performed by the Wallerstein ensembles.
Also, while government funding is less central to American than European orchestras, cuts in such funding are still significant for American ensembles.
Although most ragtime was composed for piano, transcriptions for other instruments and ensembles are common, notably including Gunther Schuller 's arrangements of Joplin's rags.
A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with a variety of ensembles.